As someone who as been working on finding Allys killer since day one, also as someone who has regular checked this thread to see if any progress had been on this end, and to compare the directions I had started to look down to any direction anyone else might have made any progress with.... let me just tell you what I really think about pretty much everything Ive read on this thread... and many you are not going to like what Im about to say, but if you read my actual words and can keep yourself from taking it personally, I think youll be the better for it.
Heres what Ive mostly observed.... speculative chaos without direction, at the same time. Ill admit, a lot of this simply comes down to the extremely limited information released by investigators.
An another part of this comes down to a highly organized, planned, detailed, and excuted effort, by Allys mother, Nikki Brueger, to deliberately distort, twist, exaggerate, down-play, and cover up different peices of information relating to many different aspect of the investigation.
This effort has been going on since the day Alex was killed... and more recently, if anyone reads anything her mother has been saying over the past 2 weeks, this effort has been kicked into EXTREME over-drive as panic has taken over, which panic probably should be taking over at this point.... theres LOTS of reason to panicked if your Nikki Brueger at the moment.
If you want to know what it looks like when someones whos guilty goes into panic mode? Look at Nikki Brueger over the past couple weeks..... thats Ill say about any of that at this time.
Now admittedly, I realize the first 2 parts I just described are responsible for large portions of the speculative, unorganized, directionless Chaos that I described reading on here. But heres the part that most of you have to own here....
First, if you dont know something, information is unavailable for whatever reason, and you decided to speculate.... OK. Thats fine, I did it alot actually while I was working on this case.
HOWEVER, what DO NOT want to be doing is then building upon an original speculation (yours or anyone elses) with more speculative, then more, and more, maybe little more?... no, lets get joe at the coffee shop in on this too, or then Lindsey sitting at home on couch, I bet they can add some fun speculations to this speculative monstrosity weve created..... thats the name Ive given these things by the way, and youre welcome!
NOW, I get the temptation!
I get it... because I even did it in the very beginning. and I realized why I did it too.
I did it for the same reason any of you do, I wanted feel like I was going somewhere, To feel like I was making some kind of progress and that I wasnt just letting Alexs murder go unsolved. I was severely depressed over Alex death and it felt good to feel like I was figuring something out..... but heres the truth.
Despite how it feels, in the end.... youve gone absolutely no where, solved absolutely nothing, you end up with exactly the same amount of actual useful information that you started with, and youve made absolutely Zero progress of any kind.
Not all of you do this, and of those you that do, you do so to different extents.
This is why, Im sorry to say, I never once found anything on here that was actually helpful in anyway. Like I said, a big part of this isnt your fault.... You just didnt have much info and often what info you did have was being deliberately manipulated by mom.... so you speculated a lot! Again, thats ok!
But going forward, be aware of just how insanely easy it is to speculate yourselves off into oblivion.
The only other thing I would say...
I mean, I dont really feel like should have to at this point, but Ill say it anyway...
Be careful of assumptions and speculations you decide to make about someone, especially when its based off so called common wisdom. In other words, base assumptions like parents always innocent, boyfriends are usually guilt...
Also, polygraph results are ********. However, it can be a useful tool in pressuring a confession of someone who guilty...but beyond that... theyre complete ********! and the majority of law enforcement is aware of this.
These last 2 things I mentioned.... I having been the boyfriend who failed a polygraph... I cant even begin to describe to any of you how Ive been treated since Alexs death, or what this experience has been like, but Im sure you can try imaging it for yourselves....
And thats not even mentioning the hospital I worked with Alex at, they asking me recently if I would take leave of absence to protect the reputation of the hospital and prevent any conflicts that might arise from me working there. I, not politely, refused and theyve backed off.. those hospital executives are going to be in that same line that was referring to in my last post.
Thats all I have to say.